The impact of cognitive rehabilitation on working memory and verbal fluency in dyslexic students (a single case study)

Subject Areas : Thoughts and Behavior in Clinical Psychology

Leila Fallahi ¹ , Farah Lotfi Kashani ² , Abbas Masjedi Arani ³

1 - دپارتمان روان شناسی سلامت، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج،کرج، ایران
2 - دپارتمان روان شناسی بالینی، واحد رودهن، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی. رودهن. ایران
3 - دپارتمان روان شناسی بالینی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران. ایران

Received: 2017-04-23 Accepted : 2017-04-23 Published : 2016-12-21

Keywords: breast cancer, Spiritual therapy, Cytokines,

Abstract :

There is ample evidence confirming the relationship between psychological, social and spiritual issues and human’s biological systems, including the immune system. Breast cancer patients usually face significant distress related to probability of recurrence, death, body image, and psychological problems. The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of group spiritual therapy on serum levels of Cytokine interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha among women with breast cancer. Therefor, in a semi-experimental study, 16 patients with breast cancer referred to Shohada Tajrish Hospital in Tehran were purposefully selected and randomly divided into experimental and control group. The experimental group received 12 sessions of spiritual therapy. The serum levels of Cytokine interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha of subjects in both groups were measured before, after, and three month after the last session.  Multivariate analysis of variance of serum levels of Cytokine interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha revealed that spiritual therapy is effective in reducing serum levels of Cytokine interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha in women with breast cancer and has relative endurance over time.